The high variability observed between individual samples might be explained by the complexity of the patient cohort and the fact that no personal parameters (such as age, sex, smoking and drinking status, ethnical and social background, stage of tumour etc).
* significant at the 0.05 level; ** significant at the 0.01 level; *** significant at the 0.001 level ¹ Independent variables excluded from all stepwise regression analyses: married status, ethnical minority & coercive experience during previous admissions; ² N/A not applicable.
* significant at the 0.05 level; ** significant at the 0.01 level; *** significant at the 0.001 level ; 1 Independent variables excluded from all stepwise regression analyses: ethnical minority, voluntary status & coercive experience during previous admissions; ² N/A not applicable.
These results thus confirm other research in this field, showing a heterogeneity of emigrants across Swiss language regions in terms of gender, ethnical background, migration history and legal status of residency [ 19, 20].
Based on well known differences in health status and access to health services across ethnical groups in the USA, this is a limitation of the otherwise well performed study.
Ethnical approval was received from the Ethnics Committees of the Rijeka University Hospital Centre and School of Medicine, University of Rijeka.
Because the distribution of the two COMT alleles differs between different ethnic groups [ 23], the risk of bias caused by ethnical admixture could not be ruled out.
The controls (mean age: 3.2 years, 74.3% males, 25.7% females) sharing the same ethnical background with the affected subjects were unrelated Chinese individuals who had visited our hospital to evaluate their health status.
Q. Simone Cipriani: What is your definition of ethnical fashion?
Tribunal statutes describe genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
